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Free lesson plan - Lost Words and your school grounds

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Free lesson plan - Lost Words and your school grounds

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Free lesson plan with easy outdoor activities to support the Lost Words storybook by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris. For more information and support using this lesson plan, join us for a free webinar on Tuesday 24th November. Please register via our Eventbrite page.

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Free lesson plan - Habitats and Foodwebs

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Free lesson plan - Habitats and Foodwebs

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Free lesson plan focusing on mapping habitats in your school grounds with your learners. Join us on Thursday 19th November for a free webinar based on this resource and demonstrating how the Nature Discovery Map Scotland can support this learning. Please register via our Eventbrite page.

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Free lesson plan for literacy in the outdoors. This resource demonstrates some activities that can help learners with story writing using their school grounds. Further information and support will be provided in our free webinar on Thursday 12th November, please register via our Eventbrite page.

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NDMS lesson plan - School grounds, literacy and story weaving

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Free lesson plan - Emotion Mapping Outdoors

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Free lesson plan - Emotion Mapping Outdoors

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Free lesson plan available showing how emotions and the outdoors are connected, and can be mapped in your school grounds as a fun activity for learners. Join us for a free webinar on Tuesday 3rd November to explore this further and see how the Nature Discovery Map Scotland can help map emotions. Please register for the webinar via our Eventbrite page.

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Free lesson plan available exploring the circular economy in nature and an experiment to show this in action. This resource will be explored during our free webinar on Tuesday 6th October. Please register via our Eventbrite page.

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Free lesson plan - Quick & easy outdoor experiments

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Free lesson plan - Quick & easy outdoor experiments

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Free lesson plan showing some simple outdoor experiments for your learners to inform about the environment of your school grounds. Join us for a webinar on Wednesday 30th September to explore these activities in detail and show how the Nature Discovery Map Scotland can support this learning. Register for the webinar via our Eventbrite page.

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NDMS lesson plan - Infiltration experiements

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Free lesson plan - Collecting Outdoor Data

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Free lesson plan - Collecting Outdoor Data

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Free lesson plan showing how to collect outdoor data with your learners to help inform a move towards climate resilient school grounds. Join our free webinar on Wednesday 16th September to explore this further and see how the Nature Discovery Map Scotland can support this learning. Register via our Eventbrite page.

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NDMS lesson plan - Collecting & handling information

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Free lesson plan - Sustainable Settings

This lesson plan demonstrates simple steps to take in your outdoor learning settings and can help towards Keep Scotland Beautiful Eco-schools award. Join our free webinar on Thursday 10th September for more support and information on this lesson plan. Register via our Eventbrite page.

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Join us for our free webinars for educators, demonstrating a range of outdoor activities for your learners and exploring how the Nature Discovery Map Scotland tool can support this learning. Please sign up on our Eventbrite page.

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NDMS - WP16 - Promotional poster (A6010190)

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Find help for the Nature Mapper, Local Dashboard and National Dashboard plus some FAQs in Explore.

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Nature Discovery Map Scotland Making the outdoors your classroom NatureScot Logo Explore the Applications Click below to enter the NDMS applications Help Topics Click below to download Nature Mapper Local Dashboard National Dashboard Frequently Asked Questions NatureScot Logo and link Scottish Government logo and link The Nature Discovery Map Scotland (NDMS) toolkit has been developed by NatureScot on behalf of Scottish Government. This has also been supported by HP Inc. HP Sponsor Logo

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Find out what raingardens are and how they work in school gounds.

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A short film explaining the importance of Scotland's pollinating insects, some of the issues they face and what we can do to help. Pollinators rely on the nectar and pollen produced by a variety of flowering plants. This results in the transfer of pollen between plants, leading to fertilisation and the production of seeds and fruit.

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Scotland's pollinators - Make Space for Nature

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Our map doesn't show the brilliant bird boxes we added to our grounds last year so we are going to add them.

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Differentiating between grassy sports areas and mown grass has helped us realise we could convert some of the mown grass to a wildflower meadow!

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Nature Discovery Map Scotland (NDMS) is designed to engage and empower students to maximise their school grounds and improve them for nature and climate resilience.

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Nature Discovery Map Scotland (NDMS) is a NatureScot project designed to engage and empower school pupils in Scotland to understand and maximise their school grounds. The ultimate goal is for the pupils to help improve their environment for nature and climate resilience.

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Introductory YouTube tutorial on how to use padlet

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Introductory YouTube tutorial on how to use padlet

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Our Padlet is slightly different to the one in the film because it has columns. To add to one of the columns press the plus at the top.

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Padlet Tutorial for Students - How to Join and Participate

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Learn about the incredible insects that are found in your school grounds. Map the habitats you have, carry out a survey or two and see if you can improve your school grounds to be more insect friendly!

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To find out more about the Nature Discovery Map Scotland, how to use it in the classroom and the resources we have available to support you, (or if you just need a refresh) please join us for our free online sessions! Sign up is via Eventbrite

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RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch - 23rd to 25th January

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RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch - 23rd to 25th January

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An easy and adaptable activity to do in your school grounds whilst contributing to citizen science! Take some time outside to sit, watch and record any birds that you see. It can be a good opportunity to explore data collection and analysis. Also, a chance to consider how you could improve your school grounds to encourage more birds to visit. Free resource available on the website.

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Big Garden Birdwatch is the world’s largest garden wildlife survey. Every year, hundreds of thousands of nature lovers like you take part, helping to build a picture of how garden birds are faring.

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Comhairle air rùrachd chùramach is fiosrachadh, tro shùilean nan Gàidheal, air cuid a lusan is feamainn a ghabhas cruinneachadh is ithe ann an Alba

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A pictorial guide to some of the plants and seaweeds that can be gathered and eaten in Scotland.

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A’ tighinn gu nàdarra: a’ rùrach fhreumhan Gàidhlig ann an cruthan-tìre is fiadh-bheatha na h-Alba, còmhla ri Ruairidh MacIlleathain

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Named by nature: exploring the Gaelic roots of Scotland’s landscapes and wildlife, with Roddy Maclean

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Gaelic journalist Roddy Maclean reveals how the Gaelic language helps us understand and protect Scotland’s nature.

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Dòighean sìmplidh air nàdar a chuideachadh gach ràith. Tha a' chomhairle uile sa Ghàidhlig.

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Blogaichean Gàidhlig bho NàdarAlba / NatureScot Gaelic blogs

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Blogaichean Gàidhlig bho NàdarAlba / NatureScot Gaelic blogs

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Cruinneachadh mòr de bhlogaichean dà-chànanach air dualchas nan Gàidheal / Great collection of bilingual blogs focussing on natural and cultural heritage

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BBC Bitesize - Atharrachadh na Gnàth-Shìde

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BBC Bitesize - Atharrachadh na Gnàth-Shìde

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Atharrachadh na gnàth-shìde - Atharrachadh na gnàth-shìde - Nàiseanta 4 Cruinn-eòlas Revision - BBC Bitesize

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Bho linn deighe gu blàthachadh na cruinne. Sgrùd na h-adhbharan airson atharrachadh na gnàth-shìde, a bhuaidhean agus ro-innleachdan airson a lùghdachadh.

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Get involved in our latest event, share pupil activity, ideas and tips for using Nature Discovery Map Scotland

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Get involved in our latest event, share pupil activity, ideas and tips for using Nature Discovery Map Scotland

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For any questions or issues contact ndms@nature.scot

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Celebrate National Mammal Week with this free outdoor learning resource for primary. It encourages students to explore their school grounds from the view of a mammal, using the Nature Discovery Map Scotland.

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Find out more about hedgehogs, food webs, habitats and mapping as you explore the school grounds and make a route for a hedgehog.

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Maths Week Scotland - w/c 22nd September - finding and using the measure tool

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Maths Week Scotland - w/c 22nd September - finding and using the measure tool

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Access the measure tool to measure distance and area in the Nature Mapper (top right in the image above, fourth button down).

It's simple to use, but for further details visit the Nature Mapper Help Topic (p7) Nature Discovery Map Scotland

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Have a go at using Nature Discovery Map Scotland to map the trees in your school grounds. Once they are all mapped your class can measure tree heights and see if they can identify tree species.

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Children's Mental Health Week Activity - This is My Place 2026

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Children's Mental Health Week Activity - This is My Place 2026

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Here is an interactive, outdoor activity to support your class with learning during Children's Mental Health Week, exploring how emotions can be influenced by the space and nature around us. This activity aimed at primary school students, uses mapping skills and outdoor learning to identify links between their schools grounds and their feelings. Download the free activity instructions and visit Nature Discovery Map Scotland for more ideas and the Nature Mapper.

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Can linguistic clues enhance our understanding of an area's past and inspire its future potential?

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Can linguistic clues enhance our understanding of an area’s past and inspire its future potential?

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Get involved in Maths Week Scotland 22-28 September 2025.

See the Latest Events section for ideas on how to use the amazing NDMS measure tool to support maths activities in and around your school grounds.

https://mathsweek.scot/

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While we were learning outdoors, we watched a duck waddle from our school grounds to the pond in our park. We worked out that he waddled for over 166 metres. Wonder why he didn't fly!

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Can linguistic clues enhance our understanding of an area's past and inspire its future potential?

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Can linguistic clues enhance our understanding of an area’s past and inspire its future potential?

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Free new lesson plan on Weather and Climate, demonstrating simple activities for your learners. Join our free webinar on Tuesday 1st September, focusing on this resource and how the Nature Discovery Map Scotland can support this learning. Register via our Eventbrite page.

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NDMS lesson plan - Weather, Climate & Me